Saturday, February 23, 2013

The Odds

Read Deuteronomy 19-21

Deuteronomy 20:1 "When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt."

If we want to write an exciting story, the odds have to be stacked against our protagonist. He has to be outnumbered, outmaneuvered, and outsmarted.

Our protagonist has to win her victory the hard way. If things come too easily, our readers will become bored with the story.

It’s a tough way to live—in our lives, we look for things to be peaceful and easy. But real life cannot keep us from putting out characters in impossible situations and then stacking the odds of success against them.

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